News of the Queen’s appearance in last night’s show was published months ago,
but everyone thought it was an April Fool, the man who wrote the script
said.

Frank Cottrell Boyce will not forget the most joyous, preposterous line he
got to type during two years of top-secret planning.

It came relatively early on, Cottrell Boyce remembers, after Mark Tildesley,
nominally the set designer, came up with the “gobsmacking” idea of James
Bond parachuting into the stadium with the Queen. To set it up they would
need a sequence filmed at Buckingham Palace. It didn’t take long to discover
Daniel